"Sometimes you get the impression that nobody ever laughed during the period between 1914 and 1918", Ian Hislop said ahead of the opening night of the Wipers Times at Richmond Theatre. To some extent that would be true - the war was no laughing matter, after all. But in other ways...
Golf has beaten off competition from cricket, snooker and BRIDGE to be crowned the world's most BORING game. The snoozeworthy sport was invented in Scotland in 1497 and has been putting spectators to sleep ever since. However, it hasn't stopped it becoming one of the world's most popular games, with...
Hard-working parents don't get to finally put their feet up until 8:53pm, get just 48 minutes of time to themselves a day and spend most of their evening trying to get their kids to eat their dinner - but how well are you coping? New research has revealed the extent...
An emotive speech by 16-year-old Lauren Stocks is going viral after she shed light on the state of Britain's schools. The GCSE student won a standing ovation following the speech which touched on the mental health of students and their well-being. Stocks rubbished statistics that found three in ten children in...
Stop HS2 campaigners have been distributing rail tickets marked for the "privileged few" at the Labour Party Conference. The activists replicated British rail tickets with costs and consequences detailed on the front, with the class bracket stating "privileged few" and the ticket type referred to as "super excess vanity project". The...
Shadow Secretary of State for Education Angela Rayner has pledged to end period poverty in schools by committing £10 million for sanitary products. Her strong words come after a report by charity Freedom4Girls found girls in the UK were missing school because they could not afford sanitary protection. Rayner told the Labour Party...
New research has revealed the place we Brits are the happiest - and there's no prizes for guessing where it is. According to a new poll millions of Brits are happiest when they’re in the PUB, with the nation’s love affair with their local revealed to be stronger than ever....
Chancellor Philip Hammond repeatedly refused to endorse Theresa May as the Conservative leader that will take the party into the next election just days before the Conservative Party Conference gets underway. Speculation over Ms May's future is rife in the run-up to the conference after reports emerged that 30 Tory MPs...
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has issued a bold statement to the Conservative's at this year's Labour Party Conference, saying education should be a gift from one generation to the next and not a commodity to be sold. The MP for Hayes and Harlington reiterated Labour's pledge to scrap tuition fees in today's...